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The goal of BizHours is to make Cacti's Availability statistics more realistic for remote offices that are not always up (and don't need to be). An example could be any location that has a WAN circuit that is only up during business hours.

Using the BizHours templates you define operating hours. One template contains a set of operational hours that can be assigned to multiple devices. For example, you can configure a template called "EST, 9 to 5, 7 days a week" for all your location that only need to be monitored every day between 9am and 5pm in the Eastern Standard Timezone.

The primary function of BizHours is to disable monitoring of a host when the current time is outside of a host's operation hours. This way if the device becomes unavailable after hours it will not count towards decreased availability.

The BizHours tab shows the hosts, whether or not they use a BizHours template, and also the SNMP location that which is stored in the BizHours tables.

Hi packetmaster,
hmm, where the files in \images gone and how can I add different schedules (f.ex. 8h 5days, or daily 08:00h-17:00h etc)?

wkr
Sash

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ok you need to run http://<cacti-server-url>/cacti/plugins/bizhours/bizhours_templates.php directly, isn't linked in settings ;-)
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Hi Sash,

The different schedules are added by clicking on the BizHours Templates menu item, which you can find underneath the Templates section on the left side of the console. See the attached screenshot.

I must have missed the image files in the original zip. That's been fixed, and I've also attached BizHours v0.2. It add a column in the BizHours tab that shows whether a device is currently being monitored.

I was also working on another feature that would leave the devices enabled when they're out of business hours, but would simply adjust the availability statistics, but it's not ready for deployment yet.

Hi packetmaster,
thanx for response and update, sometimes I'm blind ;-)